Cognitive Psychology category: 3003 books
by Laura Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2004
Interest in cognitive development has been resurgent in recent years as a result of continuing improvements in technology and the new methods of research these enable. Introducing Cognitive Development brings a new focus and clarity to this theoretically complex area. Using numerous illustrations...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
This volume brings together philosophical perspectives on emotions, imagination and moral reasoning with contributions from neuroscience, cognitive science, social psychology, personality theory, developmental psychology, and abnormal psychology.
The book explores what we can learn about...
Neurocomputational Models of Cognitive Development and Processing
Proceedings of the 14th Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
This volume presents peer-reviewed versions of papers presented at the 14th Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop (NCPW14), which took place in July 2014 at Lancaster University, UK. The workshop draws international attendees from the cutting edge of interdisciplinary research in psychology,...
Modeling Human Behavior With Integrated Cognitive Architectures
Comparison, Evaluation, and Validation
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2006
Resulting from the need for greater realism in models of human and organizational behavior in military simulations, there has been increased interest in research on integrative models of human performance, both within the cognitive science community generally, and within the defense and aerospace...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Originally published in 1981, perceptual organization had been synonymous with Gestalt psychology, and Gestalt psychology had fallen into disrepute. In the heyday of Behaviorism, the few cognitive psychologists of the time pursued Gestalt phenomena. But in 1981, Cognitive Psychology was married to...
Cognitive Motivation
From Curiosity to Identity, Purpose and Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
Motivation and cognition were treated as separate concepts throughout most of twentieth-century psychology. However, in recent years researchers have begun viewing the two as inextricably intertwined: not only does what we want affect how we think, but how we think affects what we want. In this innovative...
by Soledad Ballesteros
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Examining the current state of the research in perception stressing contributions in visual information processing, this volume provides an original and timely account of recent results obtained in this and other related areas of cognitive psychology. The scope of the book is intended to be broad,...
by Andrew W. Ellis, Andrew W. Young
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Cognitive neuropsychology seeks to understand impairments of specific cognitive functions in relation to a model of normal cognitive processing. The conclusions drawn from the study of abnormal processes are in turn used in the development and testing of theories of normal cognition.
First...
Cognitive Psychology
Revisiting the Classic Studies
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
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*Revisiting the Classic Studies *is a series of texts that introduces readers to the studies in psychology that changed the way we think about...
Neuropsychological Research
A Review
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2008
In a broad sense, neuropsychology stands for the branch of brain sciences that aims to understand how the structure and function of the brain relate to specific cognitive and psychological processes. The idea of developing a research field somewhere between neurology and cognitive psychology emerged...
Progress in Psychological Science around the World. Volume 1 Neural, Cognitive and Developmental Issues.
Proceedings of the 28th International Congress of Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Progress in Psychological Science around the World, Volumes 1 and 2, present the main contributions from the 28th International Congress of Psychology, held in Beijing in 2004. These expert contributions include the Nobel laureate address, the Presidential address, and the Keynote and State-of-the-Art...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Cognitive Science is an avowedly multidisciplinary field, drawing upon many traditional disciplines or research areas--including Linguistics, Neuroscience, Philosophy, Psychology, Anthropology, Artificial Intelligence, and Education--that contribute to our understanding of cognition. Just as learning...
Applied Cognitive Psychology
An Information-Processing Framework
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Originally published in 1988 Applied Cognitive Psychology draws on the psychology of perception, attention, and cognition to give an understanding of some everyday activities and skills. Paul Barber focuses on processes involved in selecting simple actions, face perception, reading, and tasks requiring...
Cognitive Dynamics
Conceptual and Representational Change in Humans and Machines
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Recent work in cognitive science, much of it placed in opposition to a computational view of the mind, has argued that the concept of representation and theories based on that concept are not sufficient to explain the details of cognitive processing. These attacks on representation have focused on...